Programming By Stealth
Bart Busschots & Allison Sheridan
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PBS 184a of X: SASS Basics
In our most recent installment, Bart taught us how to use CSS "variables" (custom properties) to customize Bootstrap to make your pages not look like every other Bootstrap page on the Internet. He…
PBS 183 of X: Customising Bootstrap with CSS 'Variables'
In our previous installment, Bart taught us how to use CSS "Variables" to style our web pages and web apps. In this installment, he takes it up a notch by showing us how to start with a…
PBS 182 of X: CSS 'Variables'
In this very fun installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use CSS “variables”, which aren’t actually variables (they’re custom properties). These non-variables allow you to take…
PBS Tidbit 18 — A Real-World Jekyll Example
Bart taught us about creating static sites with Jekyll and even how to create custom layouts using Bootstrap 5. We learned about Markdown files with YAML front matter and more. In this Tidbit, Bart…
PBS Tidbit 17b — Simplifying Developer Setups with Docker
This instalment is the second half of PBS Tidbit 17 in which Helma van der Linden is the instructor and Bart Busschots is the student. We pick up the plot right where Helma begins to teach how to…
PBS Tidbit 17a — Simplifying Developer Setups with Docker
This very special episode of Programming By Stealth is a Tidbit written and taught by the lovely Helma van der Linden. Bart has wanted to understand Docker better, and Helma has some great use cases…
PBS Tidbit 16 — How Podfeet.com Works
Bart continues his unofficial series where he listens for where I say, "I wish I understood..." This time, he explains the history of how Podfeet.com has evolved over the last 20 years. We started…
PBS Tidbit 15 — Building an Indie Author Site with Hugo by Eddie Tonkoi
This week, we have a guest contribution by the fabulous Eddie Tonkoi. He walks us through his journey to move his wife's book series website using a static site generator called Hugo. He hosts the…
PBS Tidbit 14 — Coding with AI
You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2025_10_25 Join our Slack at…
PBS Tidbit 13 — PowerShell Tames Monty
Bart had an itch to scratch, and he decided to scratch it with PowerShell. You'll remember that he gave us a teaser Tidbit seven months ago in Tidbit 11, and we still haven't started learning…
PBS 181 of X — Reusable Snippets with Jekyll Includes
We've been having great fun in Programming By Stealth learning how to use Jekyll to create a website using GitHub Pages. This week Bart goes through the challenge he left us with last time — to add a…
PBS 180 of X — Theming Jekyll
We continue our series on making websites using GitHub Pages. Building on our Jekyll knowledge with Liquid templates, we now learn how to create our own theme with Jekyll layouts. The terminology of…
PBS 179 of X — Introducing Liquid Templates in GitHub Pages with Jekyll
In this episode, Bart continues teaching us about GitHub Pages using Jekyll by introducing us to Liquid Templates. Liquid allows us to move from adding static content to our web pages to…
PBS Tidbit 12 — XKPasswd Rewrite Exits Beta
In this tidbit episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots and Helma van der Linden start by reviewing how she took the reins of the XKPasswd project to first convert it from Perl to…
PBS 178 of X — Getting Started with Jekyll Pages
Last time we learned how to install Ruby, install Bundler, install Gems, and build a very simple website using Jekyll as our static site generator into GitHub. In this installment of our Jekyll…
PBS 177 of X — Publishing A Basic Jekyll Site (GitHub Pages)
In our miniseries on GitHub Pages, we learn how to create a basic Jekyll site. To do this, we must install a modern version of Ruby, install its Gem Bundler, create a little placeholder site, and…
PBS 176 of X — Deploying a JavaScript Web App with Webpack & GitHub Actions
Way back in September of 2022, Bart finished off the Webpack miniseries by leaving it as an exercise for the student to deploy their web apps to GitHub Pages. Bart closes that circle in this…
PBS 175 of X — GitHub Pages: Static Site Generators
In Programming By Stealth this week, Bart has started a new miniseries to teach us how to use GitHub Pages to create a website (for free.) In PBS 175, he starts by explaining what Static Site…
PBS Tidbit 11B — A PowerShell Teaser
As promised, we're back with part 2 of the Powershell Teaser. We pick up where we left off, starting with learning about parameter definitions and the advantages such a structured language affords…
PBS Tidbit 11A — A PowerShell Teaser
Bart Busschots is enamored with the open source shell from Microsoft called PowerShell. His goal was to give us a teaser on this modern shell but there was enough material in his shownotes that we're…
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Programming By Stealth has published 211 episodes since March 2015, covering topics in Technology.
Programming By Stealth is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 10m.
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